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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Paul Hammant <Pa...@ubiquity.be> on 2000/10/26 10:32:51 UTC

Bug in SaxParser.parse()

If an XML document is passed in that refers to a missing DTD, then
parse() returns....

    java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further
information

This is very confusing and took me a long time to debug.  It would be
better if parse() were able to communicate something like.....

    Unable to retrieve DTD (encapsulated exception
"java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information")

.... as ConnectException is very ambiguous, though quite technically
accurate.

Regards,

- Paul H